Wheel-balancing device.



4 0 9 E N U J D B T N E T A P GQJ. A. HEISE. WHEEL BALANCING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 11. 1904.

N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES Patented June '7, 1904;

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. A. HEISE, OF NEWARK, NE W JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF FORTY= FIVE ONE-HUNDREDTHS ,TO FRANZ J. BEYER, OF NEWARK, NEW

JERSEY.

WHEEL-BALANCING. DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 762,053, dated June 7, 1904.

Application filed March 11, 190 1. Serial No. 197,673. (No model.)

To all'whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES J. A. H EISE, a citizen of the United States, residing at N ewark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements in VVheel-Balancing Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it app'ertains to make and use the same,reference being had to theaccompanyin g drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to facilitate the operation of balancing-pulleys, grinding or polishing wheels, and other rotary bodies intended for use at high speed, to secure a more perfect and true indication of the location of the heavier sides of said bodies to be balanced whereby the objection or lack of balance may be remedied with greater certainty, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved balancing device and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantiall y as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a sideelevation, partly in central vertical section, of my improved device. ,Fig. 2 is a view of the same from its free or receiving end, and Fig. 3 is a View from the end by which the device is mounted. Fig. 4 is a detail of the partially-slit end of a certain barrel or cylinder.

In said drawings, a indicates a barrel or cylinder having opposite rearwardly curving arms 5, terminating in feet 0, disposed in one and the same plane and adapted to be brought flatwise against any vertical surface, such as the side of a wall or post. Screws or bolts may then be passed through holes (Z in said feet into the supporting-surface to hold the device in position for' use. Said arms 5 at their ends away fromthe feet 0 are attached to opposite sides of the barrel or cylinder a intermediate of its ends,and said barrel or cylinder is thus adapted to be held in a position at right angles to the surface to which the feet a are attached. In actual use, the said feet being'applied to a vertical surface, the barrel or cylinder is thus held in horizontal position, as shown.

The barrel or cylinder is open at both ends and serves as a means for rotatably supporting a shaftf, Which extends centrally and longitudinally through said "barrel and projects therefronfat the end away from the feet 0 or at the forward end a sufficient distance to receive a piece of work to be balanced. Upon said projecting end of the shaft are cones g g, having their small ends toward each other and adapted to enter the axial holes of articles to be balanced, whereby articles having holes of greater-or less diametermay be more readily accommodated. Preferably these cones are stepped, as shown, and fitted loose on the shaft, with a milled flange [L at the base of each to facilitate manipulation.

The barrel 0 has at each end an annular interior recess 71 and a longitudinal slit 7, extending from the end past said recess. Parallel ears I: are formed upon opposite sides of said slit at the extremity of the barrel and perforated to receive a clamping-screw Z. A cup or holder m for bearing-balls is then inserted in said recess and held firmly by turning up the clamping-screw Z. Said ball-cups each comprises a ring of sheet metal having its edges turned inward at one end to form an annular seat a for the balls 0, which balls find another'bearing against cones on the shaft adapted to project into or lie within the ballholders m. Of these cones, which may be of Said nut s, cone.

g, &c., are easily accessible from either side, it will be understood, between the supportingarms Z) 6 of the device.

By the construction thus described I provide a device which can be conveniently mounted upon a wall or similar support and employed with great advantage for the rapid and accurate balancing of rotary bodies.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. The improved balancing device herein described, comprising a barrel or cy'linder open at both ends, means upon said barrel or cylinder, intermediate of said ends, for supporting the same in fixed position, a shaft rotatably mounted in said barrel and projecting therefrom at both ends, adjustable holding means at one of said ends, and means for axially receiving a body to be balanced at the other.

2. A balancing device comprising in its construction a barrel or cylinder open at both ends, arms extending from opposite sides of said barrel outwardly and rearwardly and being adapted to be fastened to a support, a shaft mounted longitudinally in said barrel upon ball-bearings and projecting from the forward end thereof to receive bodies to be balanced, adjustable cones upon said receiving end, and means at the rear end of the barrel for adjustably retaining said shaft, said means being accessible between the said supporting-arms. I v

3. The combination of a supporting frame or bracket adapted to be fastened to a side wall and having a barrel or cylinder held thereby in substantially horizontal position and providing interior annular runways for balls, said balls, a shaft having one end porveaoss tion lying in said barrel with cones or bearings adapted to cooperate with said runways on the said barrel or cylinder and prevent longitudinal displacement of the shaft, the other end portion of the shaft projecting free from said barrel or cylinder, and adjustable oppositely-disposed cones on said projecting end of the shaft.

4. The combination with a barrel or cylinder open at both ends, of means adapted to support said barrel or cylinder in substantially horizontal position, a shaft rotatably mounted in said barrel and projecting there from at both ends, means at opposite ends of said barrel or cylinder for preventing longitudinal displacement of the shaft, and means at one of the said projecting ends of the shaft for axially receiving a body to be balanced.

5. The combination with a barrel or cylin der providing separated interior journal-bearings, of means adapted to support said barrel in substantially horizontal position, a shaft rotatably mounted in said barrel with its ends projecting beyond said bearings and having intermediate of said ends a bearing adapted to engage one bearing of the barrel, means upon the shaft at the opposite end of the barrel from said bearing for preventing longitudinal displacement of the shaft, and means at the other end of the shaft for axially receiving a body to be balanced.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of February, 1904.

CHARLES J. A. HEISIL Vitnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, RUSSELL M. EVERETT. 

